In this book Allan J. McNicol defines and describes the nature and importance of the bible's abiding narrative of the persistence of God's promises to his people and their hope of final triumph.

The book is organized in three sections. The first three chapters probe the question of the relationship between the two testaments and the questionable results of earlier attempts within Christian theology to maintain them in one grand narrative. The second section shows how a narrative reading of the Hebrew Scriptures brings coherence to the story of Israel when it is read as God...